Joe Arpaio Jumps on John McCain's "Illegals Started Wildfires" Train; Will Question Captured Immigrants About Fires

​Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be more aggressive when it comes to questioning illegal immigrants about wildfires, echoing Senator John McCain's baseless claim that immigrants started fires currently burning in southern Arizona.

Arpaio made the announcement in a press release this afternoon. New Times, however, did not get a copy of the press release, and was flat-out ignored when we asked for one. Perhaps the MCSO didn't like our earlier critique of Arpaio's "exceptional" year.

ABC 15 got a copy, and reports the following:

Deputies arrested 20 immigrants as they made their way through Maricopa County Wednesday morning.

All were reportedly from Mexico and said they were headed to locations in Texas, Tennessee, and New York state.

They all entered the border near where the fires are burning in southeast Arizona, according to the news release.

"It's a long shot I know," Arpaio said. "But since we already gather information from them about their U.S. entry points and travelling routes and methods, this is simply one more area of intelligence to explore that may help us to determine the origins of these fires."

Chances are, hounding illegal immigrants about wildfires won't determine the fire's origin. It will, however, appeal to the brown-bashing voters who keep electing this guy -- and continuously turn a blind eye to the millions of dollars of their money he pisses away.

In any event, it seems Mexico's in need of a new national anthem -- courtesy of Billy Joel.

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Arpaios first term cost the county's insurance $64,ooo,ooo alone over his bungling The Temple Murders case and convicting 8 men who had nothing to do with it. They were Latinos, of course, and by Arpaio's standards are all guilty of something. Now $100,000,000 has been misspent and "Side Show Joe" claims it is accounting error, By who's standards? Enron's? Either A start charging the stupid A holes who vote for Arpaio extra taxes to support his antics or deem them to stupid, or ignorant to vote. Holy crap, its a long continuous unending list of corruption, inability, stupidity, or flat out criminal activity with Arpaio, and his cohorts. What about his buddy who was using free jail labor to strip down cars that were to go to auction to raise funds for the county. Then he had jail labor reassemble the cars after he paid pennies on the dollar. He got caught, resigned with a full pension then Arpaio rehired him as a consultant for an even larger salary. How much of his shit do we have to take? Now Hendrshit and his underling are both allowed to slink away with 6 figure per year pensions after robbing the county tax payer's blind. Some should have emptied a 6 shooter into Joe's head after he was caught with almost $100K in cash in the trunk of his car. The tax payers could have kept the killer in a mansion for life cheaper that they can keep Arpaio employed. The next person who tells me Arpaio is so great he should be cloned < I believe I shall rob them at gun point and then beat them senseless (OK they already are senseless for saying Arpaio is so great he should be cloned, but it may make a point) beat them almost to death for only having 1/2 as much money on them as I required for robbing them in the first place because my clone needs money too! That is what two Arpaio's would be like. Two guys ripping off Maricopa County at every possible convenience, and inviting their friends to get in on the action.

Interview the illegals, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Find out how and why they killed JFK. Find out how they flew big aeroplanes into the twin towers, performed tree top aerobatic maneuvers aboard that big invisible transport mechanism and slammed it into the pentagon without leaving hardly any debris and at the same time disconnecting all the security cameras pointing at one of the most guarded buildings in the world. Find out how they sat next to Dick Chaney in the big war room and ordered all military jets to stand down and allow their illegal compadres to complete their dastardly deed. Find out why they refused to pay their outrageously interested mortgages and defaulted on all those homes causing the world economic crisis of today. And Joe, ask them about those hedge funds they created down there in Sonora and how we can siphon billions of dollars out of the system every day just like they do. Don't forget to drill them about the way they devised the plan to cut the gulf current and issue in the next ice age. I know they did all this and I'll bet they did it to bring attention to the Dream Act.

Bozo Joe should be questioning himself about all the mismanagement, 50+ million in civil suit pay outs, untold millions in legal fee's, beatings, deaths, cover ups and the widespread corruption running wild in MCSO.

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